Ethical Issues Facing IT Professionals Kimon Wherley CIS207 February 8, 2016 Charles Jacks Ethical Issues Facing IT Professionals There are many unique challenges we face in this day, and age of information. Information is the means through which the mind expands and increases its capacity to achieve its goals, often as the result of an input from another mind. Thus, information forms the intellectual capital from which human beings construct their lives and secure dignity. However, the
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Individual Case: Coffee Wars in India Café Coffee Day is the leader specialist coffee chain in India, holding over 60% of market share. The major issue that C.C.D. is facing is the entrance of the dominant global brand, Starbucks, in India’s coffee business. Not only Café Coffee Day has to deal with it, but also face all other international brands currently at the market while having global ambitions. In these last years, the competition in the coffee market has been increasing and even though Café
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Situation The popularity of light beer among young people was increasing. Mountain Man Brewing Company was considering whether to launch Mountain Man Light to attract more sales. Problem Mountain Man had a 2% decline in revenue each year while light beer was much more demanding. However, launching a new product was costly. Also, if they launch the new product, they don’t know if it should be under the Mountain Man brand name or using some other names. In all, it’s difficult to predict that if the
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to proceed with legal actions to retrieve the disputed domain name. Issue: 1. Did M.s Ngoc Han’s actions cybersquatting the name of lafarge.com.vn and using the name for obstructing LAFARGE and re-selling the name for benefits violate the trademark right and negatively effect the brand name of LAFARGE company ? 2. Did Ms Han’s ations of using the site Lafarge.com.vn for advertising and sales of construction material prejudice the reputation or popularity of the mark LAFARGE ? Ruling:
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Introduction: Black & Decker Corporation (B&D) is one of the top power tool producing companies in the world. The company targets three main segments: Consumers, Professional-Tradesman, and Professional-Industrial. By late 1990 B&D’s market share in the Tradesman segment fell dramatically causing its main competitor, Makita, to obtain 80% of the market share in cordless drills and 50% segment share overall. Although B&D has a respectable market share holding in its other two market segments, the
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1. The United States Constitution granted intellectual property rights to encourage entrepreneurs to drive the economy forward. If their intellectual rights were not protected, individuals would not have the drive to innovate, as it would not be in their rational self-interest. The founding fathers insinuated that unless a barrier was created that entitled innovators to a reward for their efforts, the economy would not thrive, thus limiting taxable revenue for the government. In addition, limiting
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To identify whether the LA Charges logo is infringement or not, a likelihood of infringement analysis must be used. A. Reasons why the LA Chargers logo constitutes trademark infringement • Similarity of the marks (appearance, sound, connotation) o The LA Chargers logo itself is very similar in relation to the LA Dodgers logo. Both logos consist of the use of the letters “LA”. Both logos also only consist of those two letters. An individual that was not an avid baseball fan could confuse the two
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Part I 1) Jackson sues Peniata and Wilber for trademark infringement alleging that “St. Paul Bistro is confusingly similar to “St. Paul Café”. Will Jackson prevail in her suit? Why? Answer: Jackson does have a case against Peniata and Wilber for Trademark 2) Jackson sues Peniata and Wilber for trade dress infringement. Will Jackson prevail in her trade dress infringement suit? Why? Answer: I do believe that Jackson does have a Trade dress infringement requires that a business' design
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Identify issues The main issue in this case is whether or not B.C. Packers should enter into the canned cat food market. If the analysis shows that B.C. Packers should go ahead with this proposition then it must also be determined which segment of the market that they should target. Analysis Market analysis must be performed on the individual markets before any financial analysis can be performed. This is in order to provide adequate information to estimate the various market shares. The
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the companies in the U.S. have an effective tool to prevent the misuse of their trademarks in another’s domain: Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C.A. 1125(d) (Supp. 2000), or the “ACPA”. Effective as of November 29, 1999, ACPA “was intended to prevent ‘cybersquatting’, an expression that has come to mean the bad faith, with the intent to profit from the goodwill associated with those trademarks”, Shields v. Zuccarini, 254 F3rd 476 (3rd Cir.2001). The ACPA renders one liable
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